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TIL: There was a scheme that offered Beanie Babies in exchange for Firearms in 1998

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VMY14 TIL in 1561 there was allegedly a mass sighting of glowing shapes and a large triangular object engaged in an aerial battle over Nuremburg, Germany. The objects eventually fell from the sky, crashing into the ground while burning and smoking.
EgxwW TIL the editors of prominent science journal Nature originally rejected the first research paper demonstrating MRI because the pictures were too fuzzy.
VWPm TIL that Nintendo owns the rights to a pornographic film called Super Hornio Brothers.
lmQa TIL: There are more than 450 different english translations of the bible. They all say things differently and It has been discovered that there are translation errors in all the popular english versions. Many christians may have beliefs based off a mistranslation.
E16op TIL that Dionne Quan, best known as the voice of Trixie Tang from Fairly Odd Parents and Kimi from Rugrats, is legally blind and all her acting scripts are written in Braille.